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Horniman Museum and Gardens

Horniman, a hidden wood and Dulwich's gallery

Forest Hill / Dulwich

Horniman Museum and Gardens · Photo: OrdinaryTomatoes

A free museum famous for its giant stuffed walrus and playable instruments, with a small aquarium and butterfly house, then a scramble through Sydenham Hill Wood to find a Victorian folly, ending at the world's first purpose-built public art gallery, where under-18s go free.

One dayAll agesCost £10:00–16:153 stops

The plan

  1. 10:001
    Horniman Museum and Gardens

    Museum · 10:00–13:00 (3h)

    Horniman Museum and Gardens

    Free museum and hilltop gardens with an animal walk. Lunch at the cafe before leaving.

    A free museum and hilltop gardens in Forest Hill, known for its huge stuffed walrus, musical instruments you can play, and a small aquarium and butterfly house (both ticketed). The gardens have an animal walk, a bandstand with views to the City and plenty of picnic space.

    Free / PaidIndoors & out
    • Baby changing
    • Café on site
    • Toilets
    • Accessibility
    • Parking
    • Good on a rainy day

    From the day-trip listing

    Photo: OrdinaryTomatoes

  2. 13:152
    Sydenham Hill Wood

    Nature & gardens · 13:15–14:30 (1h15m)

    Sydenham Hill Wood

    Fragment of the old Great North Wood with a hidden folly and a bricked-up railway tunnel used by bats.

    A surviving fragment of the old Great North Wood, managed by London Wildlife Trust, with a hidden Victorian folly and a bricked-up railway tunnel now used by bats. Kids treat it like a proper woodland adventure; paths are steep and stepped in places.

    FreeOutdoors
    • Accessibility
    • Parking

    From the day-trip listing

    Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor

  3. 14:503
    Dulwich Picture Gallery

    Art & crafts · 14:50–16:15 (1h25m)

    Dulwich Picture Gallery

    Calm galleries in gardens; lawns for little ones to run between rooms.

    The world's first purpose-built public art gallery, set in gardens in Dulwich Village, with old master paintings and changing exhibitions. Under-18s go free, and the lawns are a calm place to let little ones run between rooms.

    PaidIndoors & out
    • Good on a rainy day

    From the day-trip listing

    Photo: Poliphilo

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